What do I do now? When I feel like there’s nothing else I can do?

How do I still take an active role in the movement without overwhelming myself? Without neglecting my day-to-day duties? Without falling apart? Is this the signal that it’s time to leave? Get out of the country and take my daughter with me? If so, how do I do that without passports?

Does that make me a target of the administration when they start to round up trans citizens by calling us deviants, perverts, groomers, child abusers…? Just because I think that I should be able to live my life as the person I am and not as the person they think I should be.

I am a trans person who has decided to put myself forward in the resistance movement. My face and words are public.

I worry about my job every day.

I have a partner, who is also trans. How do I maintain my loving relationship with her? I have close friends who are trans. How do I maintain those relationships when all we can talk about half the time is how we are under attack.

I have a job that is directly related to social services like Temporary Assistance (welfare), and SNAP benefits (Food Stamps). These are government funded programs. My job is almost 100% funded by the State, which receives much of its funding from the Federal Government.

How do I take care of her on my limited resources and fight for her right to exist at the same time?

I also have a teenage daughter, who is trans, that lives with me 100 % of the time because her mother abandoned her 3 years ago. She never even showed up to contest custody. I’ve never received a dime of support in that period.

I have been as active as I possibly can in the resistance against the Trump administration. I have joined protests, I have traveled, I promote events, and I talk to anyone who will listen about the danger we are facing.